Westminster cruises to PAC Women’s Tennis Championship title 10/22/2016 5:10:31 PM Complete results ERIE, Pa. (pacathletics.org) – Fueled by titles in two of three doubles flights and four of six singles flights, Westminster College compiled 56 points to secure the team championship at the 2016 Presidents’ Athletic Conference (PAC) Women’s Tennis Championship Tournament Saturday. The league's two-day flighted championship was hosted for the 15th-straight year at the Pennbriar Athletic Club. Westminster has now shared or won outright PAC team titles in four of the last five years. The Titans shared the league title with Grove City College in 2015, won outright in 2013 and shared with Saint Vincent College in 2012. With its league championship, Westminster has claimed the PAC’s automatic qualifying bid to the NCAA Division III Women’s Tennis Championships. Preliminary rounds are scheduled to be played in May 2017. Grove City was the event’s runner-up with 35 points, followed closely by Washington & Jefferson College in third with 34 points. Thomas More College was fourth with 24 points, while Geneva College finished fifth (21), Saint Vincent sixth (19), Thiel College seventh (9), Waynesburg University eighth (6) and Bethany College ninth (3). Thomas More first-year Brooke Warden (Edgewood, Ky. / Dixie Heights), the top seed at number one singles, claimed PAC Player of the Year honors after posting a 6-2, 6-2 victory over third-seeded sophomore Maggie Manchester (Williamsport, Pa. / Williamsport) of Grove City in the flight’s championship match. Warden is the first freshman/first-year player to take home PAC Player of the Year honors since Grove City’s Nicole Andreini in 2006. Warden and sophomore Maryann Meadows (Cold Springs, Ky. / Notre Dame Academy), the second-seeded duo at first doubles, secured runner-up honors in the flight after falling to top-seeded junior Gabby Eaborn (Coraopolis, Pa. / West Allegheny) and senior Sydney Sterner (Imperial, Pa. / West Allegheny) of Westminster 8-4 in the championship match. Westminster senior Mariah Turiano (Hollidaysburg, Pa. / Hollidaysburg) earned her fourth-straight individual flight championship this weekend after entering the fourth singles draw as the number two seed. She picked up a 6-3, 6-4 victory over top-seeded freshman Grace Moyer (Virginia Beach, Va. / Landstown) of Geneva in the title match. Turiano won titles at number two singles in 2013 and 2014 before claiming the number four singles championship in 2015. Westminster second-year head coach Dave Hayden was voted the league’s Coach of the Year, while Grove City, led by fifth-year head coach Jeff Buxton, was voted the league’s Team Sportsmanship Award winner.